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Rains E-dropsRains E-drops is a newsletter which goes out over email, to the email list rains-events@lists. It was designed to replace the Rains Drops newsletter that used to be delivered to each apartment weekly. Rains E-drops is sent out every Tuesday afternoon. In addition, when justified, a Friday morning edition of E-drops is sent out. Typically the Friday E-drops is shorter than the Tuesday one, containing mainly announcements regarding the upcoming weekend. E-drops was also designed to be more efficient than Rains Drops. Since email is sometimes unappealing to read, each entry in E-drops appears twice – once in the index section and once in the details section. A sample of E-drops appears below. Note that each index entry contains up to two lines of text, which are the same as the first two lines of the details entry. The most recent E-drops is also available in a web version that can be found at http://www–isl.stanford.edu/people/brian/edrops.html. ------- Rains E-Drops -- Tue, Apr 20, 99 -----
Web-version: http://www-isl.stanford.edu/people/brian/edrops.html Please respond to contacts given, or to owner-rains-events@lists. ========================================================= INDEX
========================================================= Weekly BBQ: Thursday, 6:30pm at Willis Lounge. Bring your own food/plate/etc -- Drinks are provided. Hunger Cleanup April 24, 1999: Help the Homeless! ========================================================= DETAILS ========================================================= Weekly BBQ: Thursday, 6:30pm at Willis Lounge. Bring your own food/plate/etc -- Drinks are provided. Come out and enjoy the warm weather. Bring something to throw on the BBQ, and something to eat it with. We'll supply drinks and good company!
Brian: bah@leland. ====================================================== Hunger Cleanup April 24, 1999: Help the Homeless! ______________________________________________________
event? In fighting HUNGER and HOMELESSNESS? In taking a three-hour STUDY BREAK with friends to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the world? All while gaining the chance to win some terrific PRIZES? The 15th ANNUAL Hunger Cleanup is coming to Stanford on April 24, 1999. Come to the Informational Meeting in Tressider Oak Lounge on April 19 at 7:00pm. Sponsored by SPOON. Questions? Contact Rita, rgarg@leland. E-drops SubmissionsBoth the web version and the email version of the E-drops newsletter are assembled using a mostly automated system. This saves roughly 1 hour per week of time! However, for this to work, the submission of items must be in a special format. There are two ways to submit items: by email, and using a web form. Please learn to use one or both of these methods properly! The web form is the easiest way to submit entries for E-drops when you are writing them yourself. The web form is found at http://www.stanford.edu/~bah/eventform.fft. It appears something like what is shown below, where a sample entry appears in the boxes.  Simply fill out the two index lines. These will be shown in the index section and as the first two lines of the details section. Use the tab key to move between the boxes on the form, or click in the boxes using your mouse. Next fill out the details section. You do not need to repeat the two title lines! Finally, click on the button that says submit. You should then see a web page that confirms your submission. The other way to submit items to E-drops is to use email. Simply send an email to Brian (bah@leland) with the subject "Rains Weekly." The first two lines of the email are the index lines, and the rest is the details. The body of the email submission of the same event in the above web-submission form is shown below. Note that you do not need to indent the second index line – this is done automatically when E-drops is assembled. Weekly BBQ: Thursday, 6:30pm at Willis Lounge. Bring your own food/plate/etc -- Drinks are provided. Come out and enjoy the warm weather. Bring something to throw on the BBQ, and something to eat it with. We'll supply drinks and good company!
Brian: bah@leland. You will receive a response by email confirming your submission. The email submission method tends to be preferable when you already have your entry typed up in email, or when you are submitting a notice that you received by email. The World-Wide-Web, often referred to as “The Net” or “The Web” has become an integral part of just about any group who wants to pass out information to others. Web pages can be very useful to you as a CA. Everyone at Stanford has access to the web, so it is reasonable to refer people to the web for just about anything. In that regard, it will help you greatly as a CA to be familiar with the web and how to find things on it. Some CAs choose to make their own web pages, either for personal information, or to advertise or provide information about the events which they are holding. First, it is very useful to note the major difference between the web and email: Contact by email is initiated by the sender, while contact using the web is recipient-initiated. With email, you send out information to the people who you think would like to see it. However, on the web, you just put the information there and people come and get it if they’re interested in it. Thus, if you have a web page and that is the only place where you advertise events, then you may not see too many people at your events! However, if you are running a rafting trip and you have a list of things which you would like people to bring, putting that list on the web allows people to get the information when they need it, rather than when you send it. A final (perhaps obvious) note: Everyone is probably aware that most of the information on the web is not useful. If you want people to visit a web page, it has to be useful to them!
A web page is nothing more than a bunch of simple text in a file. Some of that text is the actual information you want to display, and some of the text tells your browser (Netscape or Explorer) how to display it, or where to go if the user clicks in certain places. Making a web page is not all that difficult. There are basically two things you need to know: how to compose the page and how to make it visible to other people. How to compose the page means how to put all the information on it in the way that you would like it shown. This can use a simple but tiresome language called HTML. An easier way, however, is to use a web-page editor such as Netscape composer. There are many out there, and it is highly recommended that you use this approach. These editors save HTML files, so you don’t need to use HTML. How to make the page visible to the world is a slightly tricky process unless you are a computer scientist. The nice thing is that you only have to do this once!
Here are step-by-step instructions that should result in you having a simple viewable web page. If you prefer, some instructions are available from the web site http://www.stanford.edu/group/dcg/lelandweb/. The instructions here should suffice, however.
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